ok, I havent posted in over a month, A: because absolutely nobody reads this. B: December was a very tumultuous month for rams football. If you dont already know, and if you actually looked up this fledgling blog you have to be a rams fan, the rams lost to the seahakws in an embarrassing 16-6 game. They played poorly on offense, and couldnt contain a quarterback starting his SECOND game. Now i had to witness that team walk into the playoffs with a 7-9 record. AND NOW today, they defeated the Super Bowl Champion Dethroned New orleans saints, and not by a OT field goal either. they won 41-36 and at one time led by two touchdowns, to convincingly shut all critics. Now you can look at this two ways.
way number one.
The seahawks did us a favor.
HOW a die hard rams fan can make that assumption take alot of pride choking, but they took all the wind out of everyones sails that the nfc west was a joke. Well a team from that joke division just sent the defending champions home to scratch away at their heads harder than the rams will be doing this offseason. Their season is SOOOOO empty. I mean i think even more empty than the rams can look at it. They STUMBLED to the damn finish line and took an 11-5 record to the playoffs after losing their last game they should have won. They had a chance to sew up the division at one point and didnt do that. They didnt win their division, struggled in the final weeks, and CHOKED to the worst team in playoff history. They were 11 point favorites on the ROAD. at least the seahwks made someone elses season even MORE empty than ours so thats a plus.
Also it restores some respect to the division and i think next year will be good for the NFCW.
Now way number too is alot simpler.
They beat us. screw em. Im mad they won.
Sublime, no
well thats how i feel
Go Pack, cuz i want the seahawks in chicago next week for their duely deserved ass beating, but they made a statement. cant deny them that
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Oh when the rams go marching in
so we beat like the worst incarnation of the arizona cardinals in years this past sunday. Seeing that team was pretty reminiscent of the cardiac cards of old that cursed st.louis from 63 until 87. But lets keep in perspective what the rams accomplished. We beat a Horrible, awful, no good, very bad defense, an even worse offense and the worst part of all is thats the same defense that forced us to kick 4. Thats 1 then three more for you math scholars out there....4 field goals. One of which after we had a 1st and goal from the 2 or 3. The Rams have 4 tough games left on their schedule. We play the saints (ugh), the Chiefs, (double ugh) the 9ers, and then the seahawks. All signs are pointing to the final game in Seattle being the decider. granted we win at least 1 out of these three games. now the rams showed signs of offensive life this past week. We were moving the ball well. Sir Stevie had a 27 yard carry for a td and brandon gibson hauled in 6 catches for 60 some yards. Now we have been absolutley cursed this year on the recieving corps and offensive line. Yet statistcally the rams are not the cellar dwellers on either aspect of the Offensive game. Defensively it was probably one of the strongest showings yet for the rams defense. they held the cards scoreless for the remainder of the game after the 1st quarter, and the cardinals didnt even see the Redzone. However, the rams were once again not without their weaknesses. The Middle pass protection has proven to be a problem area for our backfield since like forever. The cards were in fact able to get the ball to fitzgerald a few times, for a couple big gains.
but anywho we won, were 6-6 still tied for the top in the nfc west and have to go to our third straight on the road to NOLA to take on a once again stong saints team, but hey the saints were 13-0 when we met last year and we were 1-12 and it came down to the wire. so Who knows, all i know is that if we can pull it off in NO it would be a MUCH bigger win.
but anywho we won, were 6-6 still tied for the top in the nfc west and have to go to our third straight on the road to NOLA to take on a once again stong saints team, but hey the saints were 13-0 when we met last year and we were 1-12 and it came down to the wire. so Who knows, all i know is that if we can pull it off in NO it would be a MUCH bigger win.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
VINDICATION (RUFKM?!?)
HERES MY BLOG I LOST EARLIER, FROM NOV 29 2010:
Ok, so im back from the hospital after yesterdays game. Apparently my blood pressure bottomed out when the rams blew a 20 point lead in the fourth quarter. But in the ambulance my 'Football LIVE' app (youre welcome for the plug...) told me that we did in fact hold on to a three point victory. Ok, a vics a vic (just ask morris who exclaimed "we're the best in the NFC" after a 1 point comeback victory over a team 6-42 since 07') ok so the ambulance thing is fake, but my near heart attack wasnt. See Im best at home watching the game by myself or just my father (cuz he gets it). I have a little problem of screaming at my television and throwing of various rams laden clothing accessories. when an opposing drive happens in the final seconds that could change the game, i go downright bi-polar. I cant help it. I love this team so much and am so hellbent on winning i sacrifice my dignity at hand to show my support or disdain. I am a true FANatic.
But lets look at the awesomeness of this sundays game, aside from our 4th quarter defensive collapse.
1. Sam the Ram: Well the sexy pick of the 2010 draft is looking in fact like the brainiest one as well. This "rookie" is having a better season than half the veteren or young starter qbs could hope for within the next 5 years. He had a QB rating of about 112 on and threw for, i dunno what was it, 300 YARDS?! i guess thats an ok day on an NFL pitch....
2. Danario Alexander: DX!! Super Danario!! just a couple of the monikers the young Wideout from Mizzou has earned over his blinkinlgy short career. The only thing that kills me is that this kid would already be a bona fide star if it werent for his knee. But hey, we got him, and when hes healthy hes dangerous. 4 catches for 95 yards after just having surgery?! statement if i ever heard on. We keep this kid and amendola healthy, and we'll be having a double threat that'll be talked about in the same sentence and Bruce/Holt or Boldin/Fitzgerald.
3. Steven Jackson: now sir stevie is probably the nicest guy in Pro Football. Hre is an excellant athlete. Highly regarded as the best running back in the league but when i watch some of these other rbs from teams like, atlanta, Green bay, KC i cant help but wonder a few things. Now i highly doubt dancing classes were a pre requesite of the RB school of beatdown, but looks like stevie might have taken that elective. I cannot tell you the last time i saw that man put his head down and run full speed ahead. He ALWAYS cuts, bounces, skips, hops, and always ends up being swallowed. I have yet to see him bust off any tears for big yardage this year and this week against the LAST ranked team against the rush, he carried 17 times for 72 yards. Now i know saffold has this shoulder thing but comeon, this has been an issue for 3 years running. The last drive where all we did was run, we couldnt get 10 yards.....so Steven I love ya, but just lower it a goferit!!
4. Offense: 36 points, most in like 47 decades, since the young halfling found the elder scroll and pilgramed up the side of.... well nevermind. we got ANOTHER solid day out of bradford (is this kid ever gonna seriously disappoint?)
431 total yards
24 first downs
308 in the air and another
123 on the ground
take away that 20 point 4th quarter and things seem to be coming together.
Without bad there cannot be good so....
1. Defense: D,D,D,D. I love those guys. DO NOT get me wrong. You have the Hoss' of Chris Long and James Hall. King Laurenitis (ahh-OOOHHH!! its from the movie 300 chk it out). Pro bowler Oshiomogho atogwe and ron bartell. So how is it that with all of these awesome players and the coach who masterminded the great wall that held off the Patriots passing onslaught of 2007 get beat like the purdue drum over the middle time and time again. That was the only reason orton was able to formulate any sort of attack at all.
2. Injuries: Are we gonna catch a freaking break or a lack thereof (barum bum). Illinois Mike makes a badass TD run after catch then hes out for potentially the rest of the year with another high ankle sprain. Alexanfers back but with our luck hes just gonna go out next week and xxxSHUT YO' MOUTHxxx leaving him out again. so as long as well all stay a little healthyish, we can still make a run at this thing
3. The Hard, unforgiving road: well at least one thing we havent seen consistently IN st.Louis this year has been bad football, theve just been playing it everywhere else. okok, i know like everyone of our losses add up the point differential and its like 2 but still, we are having an UNBELIEVEABLE time getting it done on the road, yesterdays laurel de-crowning in the 4th quarter was not only humbling, it was down-right scary. Say we ACTUALLY do make the playoffs, which will only be off the strength of clinching the NFL's bitch division, we will get a home game, you REALLY want to leave st.louis fans who youve worked so HARD to impress and win back with a sour taste in their mouth of what coulda woulda had it not been for that fourth quarter collapse?!
So, in conclusion (my favorite 5th paragraph opening), the rams have given us something to hope for in the long run, but have also given us something to enjoy right now...... A football team that doesnt totally, unequivocally, completly, and ubiquitosly SUCK DONKEY BALLS. of course for you niners fans that subjects always open for debate, and likewise.
RAMS CHARGE!!
Ok, so im back from the hospital after yesterdays game. Apparently my blood pressure bottomed out when the rams blew a 20 point lead in the fourth quarter. But in the ambulance my 'Football LIVE' app (youre welcome for the plug...) told me that we did in fact hold on to a three point victory. Ok, a vics a vic (just ask morris who exclaimed "we're the best in the NFC" after a 1 point comeback victory over a team 6-42 since 07') ok so the ambulance thing is fake, but my near heart attack wasnt. See Im best at home watching the game by myself or just my father (cuz he gets it). I have a little problem of screaming at my television and throwing of various rams laden clothing accessories. when an opposing drive happens in the final seconds that could change the game, i go downright bi-polar. I cant help it. I love this team so much and am so hellbent on winning i sacrifice my dignity at hand to show my support or disdain. I am a true FANatic.
But lets look at the awesomeness of this sundays game, aside from our 4th quarter defensive collapse.
1. Sam the Ram: Well the sexy pick of the 2010 draft is looking in fact like the brainiest one as well. This "rookie" is having a better season than half the veteren or young starter qbs could hope for within the next 5 years. He had a QB rating of about 112 on and threw for, i dunno what was it, 300 YARDS?! i guess thats an ok day on an NFL pitch....
2. Danario Alexander: DX!! Super Danario!! just a couple of the monikers the young Wideout from Mizzou has earned over his blinkinlgy short career. The only thing that kills me is that this kid would already be a bona fide star if it werent for his knee. But hey, we got him, and when hes healthy hes dangerous. 4 catches for 95 yards after just having surgery?! statement if i ever heard on. We keep this kid and amendola healthy, and we'll be having a double threat that'll be talked about in the same sentence and Bruce/Holt or Boldin/Fitzgerald.
3. Steven Jackson: now sir stevie is probably the nicest guy in Pro Football. Hre is an excellant athlete. Highly regarded as the best running back in the league but when i watch some of these other rbs from teams like, atlanta, Green bay, KC i cant help but wonder a few things. Now i highly doubt dancing classes were a pre requesite of the RB school of beatdown, but looks like stevie might have taken that elective. I cannot tell you the last time i saw that man put his head down and run full speed ahead. He ALWAYS cuts, bounces, skips, hops, and always ends up being swallowed. I have yet to see him bust off any tears for big yardage this year and this week against the LAST ranked team against the rush, he carried 17 times for 72 yards. Now i know saffold has this shoulder thing but comeon, this has been an issue for 3 years running. The last drive where all we did was run, we couldnt get 10 yards.....so Steven I love ya, but just lower it a goferit!!
4. Offense: 36 points, most in like 47 decades, since the young halfling found the elder scroll and pilgramed up the side of.... well nevermind. we got ANOTHER solid day out of bradford (is this kid ever gonna seriously disappoint?)
431 total yards
24 first downs
308 in the air and another
123 on the ground
take away that 20 point 4th quarter and things seem to be coming together.
Without bad there cannot be good so....
1. Defense: D,D,D,D. I love those guys. DO NOT get me wrong. You have the Hoss' of Chris Long and James Hall. King Laurenitis (ahh-OOOHHH!! its from the movie 300 chk it out). Pro bowler Oshiomogho atogwe and ron bartell. So how is it that with all of these awesome players and the coach who masterminded the great wall that held off the Patriots passing onslaught of 2007 get beat like the purdue drum over the middle time and time again. That was the only reason orton was able to formulate any sort of attack at all.
2. Injuries: Are we gonna catch a freaking break or a lack thereof (barum bum). Illinois Mike makes a badass TD run after catch then hes out for potentially the rest of the year with another high ankle sprain. Alexanfers back but with our luck hes just gonna go out next week and xxxSHUT YO' MOUTHxxx leaving him out again. so as long as well all stay a little healthyish, we can still make a run at this thing
3. The Hard, unforgiving road: well at least one thing we havent seen consistently IN st.Louis this year has been bad football, theve just been playing it everywhere else. okok, i know like everyone of our losses add up the point differential and its like 2 but still, we are having an UNBELIEVEABLE time getting it done on the road, yesterdays laurel de-crowning in the 4th quarter was not only humbling, it was down-right scary. Say we ACTUALLY do make the playoffs, which will only be off the strength of clinching the NFL's bitch division, we will get a home game, you REALLY want to leave st.louis fans who youve worked so HARD to impress and win back with a sour taste in their mouth of what coulda woulda had it not been for that fourth quarter collapse?!
So, in conclusion (my favorite 5th paragraph opening), the rams have given us something to hope for in the long run, but have also given us something to enjoy right now...... A football team that doesnt totally, unequivocally, completly, and ubiquitosly SUCK DONKEY BALLS. of course for you niners fans that subjects always open for debate, and likewise.
RAMS CHARGE!!
the room of woah!
Ok so im a little pissed because i wrote this Awesomely long blog about yesterdays win and our playoff chances but apparently because i did it on another computer and saved it from the site on that terminal it must have consciously decided it was going to screw me out of a good piece. later, if i do get it back its called vindication and well nevernmind, arrrgghhh!!!. So you want to know whats cool ? its week 13, we have sole possession of the nfc west and go to arizona to play a weak team. Actually makes a cool picture like this ACTUALLY cool, istead of, "oh how sweet of them to make them feel like real football players, awww..."
now its....And starting at quarterback (cheers build), nnnNNumber Eight (building further), SAAAAAAM BUH-RAAAAADDDDFOOOOORRRRDDDD!!!!
yeah, i took that. Actually im quite modest about my photography because im just really a point and shoot type a guy. I really need to do some heavy ready on lumiere physics but thats just another trade ill never master, just get lucky in from time to time.
you know whatever happens this season is a win. WE ACTUALLY MATTER. its not like being mathematically eliminated in week 9. Our superbowl this year would be to win the division, in my eyes. Ill tell you why....We have gone 6-42 over the past three seasons. We were in fact THE worst team in the league last year, like the lions before us. If we claim the nfc crown, even as limp fisted our division may be, we would be among the top 12 teams in the league. Im sure we are going to create alot of ire if we do in fact clinch, becuase i can tell you for a fact that there WILL be teams with better records that did not make it in (08 pats for example, awesome. )
Whatever happenes, this season has created a culture change. See we sit at 5-6, but weve won 4 home games (in a row, but then broken by falcons) . That means the FANS, the people who matter, have seen something in downtown they havent seen for a long while . GOOD FOOTBALL. If the situation was reversed and the rams were 4-2 on the road and only won once at home, i dont think we would be getting as excited as we are, not only are the rams better, but we're able to see it. my mancave is no longer the room of woe, but the room of woah!.
Now dont get me wrong, te rams arent perfect, in fact if the seahaws were 7-4 in stead of 5-6, i wouldnt even be considering the playoffs. Id just be playing for pride and as many touchdowns, cheers, and good things we can conjure up in 5 games. but now, now is a different time, and to tell you the truth, Im loving it.
this is sounding shockingly reminiscent of Mark Sanchez' rookie year, how the jets clinched a spot with a 9-7 record after coach rex ryan even thought they were eliminated to shock team after team until reaching the afc game and dropping to the colts. Now will that happen, probably not....
but what the hell would happen for st.louis football if it did.....
now its....And starting at quarterback (cheers build), nnnNNumber Eight (building further), SAAAAAAM BUH-RAAAAADDDDFOOOOORRRRDDDD!!!!
yeah, i took that. Actually im quite modest about my photography because im just really a point and shoot type a guy. I really need to do some heavy ready on lumiere physics but thats just another trade ill never master, just get lucky in from time to time.
you know whatever happens this season is a win. WE ACTUALLY MATTER. its not like being mathematically eliminated in week 9. Our superbowl this year would be to win the division, in my eyes. Ill tell you why....We have gone 6-42 over the past three seasons. We were in fact THE worst team in the league last year, like the lions before us. If we claim the nfc crown, even as limp fisted our division may be, we would be among the top 12 teams in the league. Im sure we are going to create alot of ire if we do in fact clinch, becuase i can tell you for a fact that there WILL be teams with better records that did not make it in (08 pats for example, awesome. )
Whatever happenes, this season has created a culture change. See we sit at 5-6, but weve won 4 home games (in a row, but then broken by falcons) . That means the FANS, the people who matter, have seen something in downtown they havent seen for a long while . GOOD FOOTBALL. If the situation was reversed and the rams were 4-2 on the road and only won once at home, i dont think we would be getting as excited as we are, not only are the rams better, but we're able to see it. my mancave is no longer the room of woe, but the room of woah!.
Now dont get me wrong, te rams arent perfect, in fact if the seahaws were 7-4 in stead of 5-6, i wouldnt even be considering the playoffs. Id just be playing for pride and as many touchdowns, cheers, and good things we can conjure up in 5 games. but now, now is a different time, and to tell you the truth, Im loving it.
this is sounding shockingly reminiscent of Mark Sanchez' rookie year, how the jets clinched a spot with a 9-7 record after coach rex ryan even thought they were eliminated to shock team after team until reaching the afc game and dropping to the colts. Now will that happen, probably not....
but what the hell would happen for st.louis football if it did.....
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Game Report: Rams @ Broncos; 1st half
alright its the end of the first half and we are up 26-13. Now unfortuantely i am at work and i am checking my phones play by play and running back to the breakroom to get updates but what i can tell you is this. Ok 13 point lead at the half is AWESOME. whats going to be NOT AWESOME is if we blow that lead and lose yet again on the road. Now the broncs got up early 10-0 and half been exploiting our depleted backfield by getting a majority of thier yardage on over the middle passes....shocker. The rams offense sputtered at first but one thing that is definatetly going in our favor is Bradfords pretty accurate today, alexanders, back, got a score on a RAC by Illinois mike. Solid B effort for the 1st. 30 more min to go, LETS GET THIS WIN!!! (and not to mention a first place tie with a seattle loss)
Saturday, November 27, 2010
4-6 and still in it (so far)
So it is week 12 and we are officially into the last quarter of the season. This is where berths are made and squandered. This is where we start developing the playoff picture. This is the beginning of the 4th quarter.
Unfortuantely for the Rams, Fourth quarter play isnt their forte this year. The Rams are 4-6, 1 game out of 1st in the nfc west, and not exactly in control of their destiny, but definately have a huge hand in it. A Rams win and a seahawks loss this weekend would put the rams into a 1st place tie going into week 13. This could be very interesting as far as the nfc west title is concerned seeing as 3 of the last 6 games are vs division opponents. Now if the rams have any hopes of playoffs this year (and they damn well should) they MUST win their division, finishing second behind any record the sehawks manage isnt going to earn them a wild card. I honestly cant sit here and believe that i am writing about a playoff picture potentially including my team. I mean a team who hasnt gone 500 in half a decade. A team who won literally a handful-plus-one of games in THREE years. Now were talking about playoffs? BUT....and that is a very big but. Im talking wisonsin "butt". not only do we need to win AT LEAST 4 games, we need to win AT LEAST two of them on the road, a feat we have yet to accomplish. I keep talking to defensive players in the clubhouse that give the broken record answer of "we'll get past it...winning on the road doesnt define us as a team" yada yada.
Boys, Ive got some nes for you. Winning on the road does however define your record, and you need at least an 8-8 to even think about dreaming about being in the playoffs. we have a good way to start things off on the final stretch. We play a less than spectacular denver club in denver and if we play our cards right we could be looking at a 1st place standing by this monday. We shall see....but the work doesnt stop there. We play the saints, then cardinals, then chiefs. if we dont take care of business, the only christmas present we might be recieving is preseason tickets for next august. LETS DO IT!!!
RAMS CHARGE!!
Unfortuantely for the Rams, Fourth quarter play isnt their forte this year. The Rams are 4-6, 1 game out of 1st in the nfc west, and not exactly in control of their destiny, but definately have a huge hand in it. A Rams win and a seahawks loss this weekend would put the rams into a 1st place tie going into week 13. This could be very interesting as far as the nfc west title is concerned seeing as 3 of the last 6 games are vs division opponents. Now if the rams have any hopes of playoffs this year (and they damn well should) they MUST win their division, finishing second behind any record the sehawks manage isnt going to earn them a wild card. I honestly cant sit here and believe that i am writing about a playoff picture potentially including my team. I mean a team who hasnt gone 500 in half a decade. A team who won literally a handful-plus-one of games in THREE years. Now were talking about playoffs? BUT....and that is a very big but. Im talking wisonsin "butt". not only do we need to win AT LEAST 4 games, we need to win AT LEAST two of them on the road, a feat we have yet to accomplish. I keep talking to defensive players in the clubhouse that give the broken record answer of "we'll get past it...winning on the road doesnt define us as a team" yada yada.
Boys, Ive got some nes for you. Winning on the road does however define your record, and you need at least an 8-8 to even think about dreaming about being in the playoffs. we have a good way to start things off on the final stretch. We play a less than spectacular denver club in denver and if we play our cards right we could be looking at a 1st place standing by this monday. We shall see....but the work doesnt stop there. We play the saints, then cardinals, then chiefs. if we dont take care of business, the only christmas present we might be recieving is preseason tickets for next august. LETS DO IT!!!
RAMS CHARGE!!
Thursday, November 25, 2010
The Turkey bowl
So its thanksgiving eve, the night our dreams are adorned with grand visions of gluttony, and football. You see, nothing goes better with football than food (and beer). And Thanksgiving gives us just that. An entire day spent slothing about shouting ," BALL!! BALL!!" as if the sheer volume of your chant will penetrate the air to the very field of which you watch and direct your team to the ball. Thanksgiving is like football Christmas. The culmination of human happiness: family, food, and football. I dont exactly remember where the tradition started for myself. I seem to remember always stuffing my face with turkey and yams, and then screaming at the television for the cowboys to lose. I think even a couple years in there after the nfl expanded it from just 1 game a day that the rams played on thanksgiving. Let me tell you three things that dont mix: myself, large quantities of food and alcohol, and the rams losing on a late field goal (suffice it to say i havent spoken to certain family members since....joking)
So whatever you decide to do today, be it eat eat eat and veg out in front of the boob tube for 6 hours, or just spend the holiday mingling nicely (or at least cordially) with your relatives, just remember what the holiday is all about. Family. (and football)
So whatever you decide to do today, be it eat eat eat and veg out in front of the boob tube for 6 hours, or just spend the holiday mingling nicely (or at least cordially) with your relatives, just remember what the holiday is all about. Family. (and football)
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